Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 134
Why, nothing at all except to go out to merry-makings and lick your lips there.
Who acts: nothing · What happens: go out, lick · To what, where: lips
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 go | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 nothing | punct |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 go | nsubj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 nothing | nmod |
| 6 | except | except | ADP | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 go | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 makings | case |
| 11 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 makings | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 merry | punct |
| 13 | makings | making | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 go | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lick | cc |
| 15 | lick | lick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | conj |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 lips | nmod:poss |
| 17 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 lick | obj |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 lick | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | to-infinitive | nothing | to merry makings; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lick | present | nothing not said here | your lips | there | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent lip=Source |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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